The Wordsmith's Forge

This poem came out of the August 5, 2014 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by Shirley Barrette.


"Politics, Cartoon Physics, and the Elasticity Factor"


The Tea Party gets their truths
from the ACME Corporation,
wrapped in giant rubber bands.

Somehow nothing ever works
quite the way they expected,
and they're always surprised when
things snap back and hit them in the face,

but then, they don't have much grasp
of physics, cartoon or otherwise, and
this isn't really a super-genius of an organization.

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Notes:

The ACME Corporation is a staple of Warner Brothers cartoons.  They sell Giant Rubber Bands in a variety of sizes.